Perspectives

BRIAN DILLE Staff Writer Simpson’s creator and erstwhile comic artist Matt Groening famously posed the above question “Should you go to Graduate School?” in his strip, followed by a self-help-style true/false quiz (complete with boxes to check next to the questions): “1. I am a compulsive neurotic; 2. I like my imagination crushed into dust; 3. I enjoy being a professor’s … [Read more...] about Grad school: Not a quarter-life crisis fix

GABE DURAM Staff Writer I’ve spilled some satirical ink this year about the awful state of modern filmmaking, and on the whole I believe our country’s entertainment is in a trite, mindless place. Yet the Academy’s choice of five exceptional films as the year’s Best Picture nominees gives me hope. I’m aware that not all of Pepperdine feels this way. In Brian Chatwin’s Feb. 2 … [Read more...] about Left-leaning films still Oscar worthy

STAFF EDITORIAL At Pepperdine we often find our eyes shifting toward “those girls.” They may be those ones in this sorority, or that sorority. They made be those ones with the Chanel bag — one for each day of the week — and beach-blonde hair to go  with  overly tanned skin. Whatever the case, they’re those girls who get the glances, the ones who catch people’s attention and … [Read more...] about NCAA-bound womens deserve praise

SHANNON KELLYPerspectives Editor Some parents forget to give their children the “sex talk,” but by college even those who missed out should have been enlightened. If not and they go to Pepperdine, they’re still up the creek since here, the letters “s,” “e” and “x” are rarely said in sequence and the actual act is a major offense (especially on campus). So for those who missed … [Read more...] about Men unfairly ignored in abortion issues

TROY SENIK AND ASHTON ELLIS Staff Writers Fears are rising, birthrates are falling, and the greatest gift one man can give to another, free trade, is in retreat. Europe is in a well-deserved panic over the population’s decreasing number and increasing cost. In fact, the only segment of European society that appears willing to procreate and prop up the welfare system is the … [Read more...] about American ideals should set tone for worldly values